"Concerned that retirement benefits will be slashed, Detroit retirees, workers and pension funds have filed three lawsuits ... 'Not once, did [Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's] representatives sit down and seek to negotiate a solution with our union,' Steven Kreisberg, national director for collective bargaining for AFSCME, [said]. 'Our members and our retirees were never given the opportunity to address the serious issues of the type of cutback that the emergency manager is seeking[.]'"  MORE >>